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THE LOCAL MAGAZINE FOR THE SOMBORNES AND ASHLEY OCTOBER 2015 Football Club triumph Another trophy won — report and photo PAGE 5 Also in this edition: Time to remember PAGES 4 and 37 Bells rung in celebration HM the Queen’s long reign marked PAGE 12 Panto preparations begin Auditions this month PAGE 13 It’s time to fill those shoeboxes Annual appeal announced PAGE 16 DELIVERED FREE TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE SOMBORNES AND ASHLEY POSTED TO ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR £10 PER YEAR iii Sales | Lettings | Management 02392 632 275 countryhousecompany.co.uk [email protected] MSP HOME IMPROVEMENTS Over30 years experience Fully insured OAP Discounts Kitchens Bathrooms Work tops Wall tiling Extensions Roofing Doors Plumbing Painting and decorating Exterior Painting Gutters Fascias Fencing and Gates All Odd jobs undertaken All maintenance and repair work [email protected] Mobile: 07909713894 Find us on facebook for our full portfolio Home: 023 8084 5173 iv v vi vii viii Stretch and Tone at IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES suitable for all levels of experience King’s Somborne: Mon 9.30-11am & Thurs 9.30–11am in Working Mens Club Tues 6-7.30pm & 7.30-9pm in Epworth Hall Houghton: Wednesday 7.30-9pm & Friday 9.30-11am at Studio Yoga Carolyn Ryan 01794 388743 [email protected] ix C&S Mechanical Services Service & Commissioning Of All Heating Systems; Oil, Gas & LPG Installations of Oil Tanks, Heating Systems, Both Commercial & Domestic Unvented & Vented Hot Water Systems, Radiator Changes, Power Flushes, Solar Energy Approved No Obligation Free Quotation on request £2 Million Liability Insurance. All Work Guaranteed No Job Too Small, No Job Too Big CALL PAUL ON 07886 361791 OR EMMA ON 07920 289341 x The John O’Gaunt Inn is currently CLOSED following a fire. It hopes to reopen as soon as possible. Watch this space for details. 30 xi CORBEN PLANT & CONSTRUCTION LTD Building Contractors and Civil Engineering All building works undertaken New Build Extensions Property Maintenance Experienced in Listed Building Works UPVC fascias, windows and doors and all purpose-made joinery supplied and fitted All aspects of Carpentry - Cut Roofing specialists Ground works - own Plant and Equipment For free estimates and advice Tel: 01794 884039 Mobile: 07860 924330 E-mail: [email protected] xii Contact Sarah Pennington 01794 389354 [email protected] The Somborne & District Society Talks on Local History and related subjects. Visits to places of interest Visitors always welcome! Meetings held on the 4th Wednesday of each month At 8.00pm in King’s Somborne Village Hall Contact : Chris Kirby 01794 389034 www.thesombornes.org.uk xiii Terra - Arbor Ltd Horticulture – Landscapes – Arboriculture The tree and garden professionals Soft and Hard Landscaping Garden maintenance Please contact us about future projects Garden design Office: 01794 388838 Fully insured Mobile: 07557 530790 Planting Email: [email protected] Qualified tree surgeons Web: terra-arbor.co.uk Hedge cutting xiv Useful names and numbers Parish Church Schools Vicar: Somborne Pre-School 07530 893773 Rev Jonathan Watkins 01264 810810 King’s Somborne School 01794 388381 [email protected] Test Valley School 01264 810555 pa to vicar:[email protected] Police Licensed Lay Ministers: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Sue Holligan 01794 388484 Police Station 101 Howard Rowe 01794 388400 Urgent calls 999 Wardens: David Bevan 07769 682696 Neighbourhood Watch Sandie Pepperell 01794 388021 Andrew Brock 01794 388227 PCC Secretary: David Bevan 07769 682696 Parish Council Treasurer & Gift Aid Sec: Clerk: Peter Storey 01794 389688 Claire Bevan 01794 341923 Borough Councillor Flowers: Penny Ward 01794 389649 Tony Ward 01794 389649 Methodist Church County Councillor Minister: Andrew Gibson 01264 861138 Revd Dawn Carn 01962 735278 Member of Parliament Steward: Marion Downing 01794 388121 Caroline Nokes MP Roman Catholic Churches Romsey & Soton North Conservatives Hampshire Downs parish 01962 852804 01794 521155 St Swithun Wells parish 02380 273882 Village Correspondent Jo Finch Village Hall 01794 388462 Bookings: Sarah Pennington 01794 389354 Village Website (tel. after 7.30pm please) or email www.thesombornes.org.uk [email protected] Epworth Hall The Gauntlet Bookings:Marion Downing 01794 388121 Editor: Harvey Saunders 01794 388029 [email protected] Advertising: Sue Byram 01794 388521 Doctors Distribution: Lin Curtis 01794 389373 Stockbridge surgery 01264 810524 Please deliver articles for www.stockbridgesurgery.co.uk The Gauntlet to Broughton surgery 01794 301210 [email protected] Out of Hours service 01962 718697 or The Post Office. Pharmacy Copy date is no later than 5.00pm on Stockbridge Pharmacy 01264 810624 the 15th of the month please. 1 Village Directory Allotments Village Diary or village website for details. Contact: [email protected] Contact: David Haydon 01794 388120 Lisa Johnson 07796175875 or 388504 Alison Seymour 01794 389219 Art and Crafts group French Twinning Association Contacts: Regular exchanges with St Paul du Vernay Madeline Edmonds 01794 389014 in Normandy Pam Watson 01794 388429 Contacts: Louise & Andrew Causer 01794 Badminton Club 389364 Monday evenings in the Village Hall FunDay Club Contact: Sue Jackson 01794 388884 Meets after school on Mondays for children in years Reception to 4 Bellringing Contact: Sue Holligan 01794 388484 Every Monday 7.30 - 9.00pm. Garden waste scheme Contact: Sue Spurling 01794 388266 Garden waste will be collected in w/c 12th Catherine Edwards Trust and 26th October. Provides grants to village students Home Group Contact: David Bevan 07769 682696 Bible study group. Usually third Cricket Club Thursdays of the month at 8.00pm. Contact: Frank Fahy 01794 388314 Contact: Nigel Coleman 01794 388449 Christians Together in Horticultural Society Somborne and District Meets for two talks and one visit per year Welcome all to open and ecumenical and organises the annual Flower Show. meetings and services throughout the year. Contact: Pollyann Monk 01794 388482 Community Responders Household waste Contacts: Kathryn Lee 01794 388554 Non-recyclable household waste (black Sheila Nevines 01794 388043 bins) will be collected in w/c 12th and 26th Dial-a-Ride October. Trips to Romsey every Wednesday, for Recyclable household waste (brown bins) senior citizens and disabled people, at will be collected in w/c 5th and 19th 2.00pm. Fare £2.00. October. Contact: Dick or Zoe 01264 356808 Messy Church Drop In Coffee Morning Fun, creative event (with tea!) for children Coffee morning at the Epworth Hall. of all ages and their families. 3rd Sunday Every Tuesday (except the second in the of each month in term time, 3.30 - 5.30pm month) at 10.30am. at Epworth Hall. Contacts: Pam Gravenor 01794 388531 Friends of King’s Somborne Church Sam Barnes 07742 077114 Contacts: Neighbourcare David Pye (Chairman) 01794 388405 Transport to essential appointments and Football Club other small tasks. Contact: Andy Gannaway 01794 388733 Contacts: Sue Jackson 01794 388884 Footpath walk Mary Bradley 01794 388386 Monthly walk on Parish footpaths on the last Sunday of each month. Check the 2 Village Directory (continued) Mobile Library Sombornes Pre-School Tuesday 13th October: Early Years education for children aged 2.00 - 2.25pm Up Somborne from 2 to school age. 2.45 - 4.15pm Church Road Contact: Rebecca Hunt 07530 893773 Fridays 9th and 23rd October: Somborne Sessions 11.15am - 11.45am Church Road Details: www.sombornesessions.co.uk 12.00pm - 12.30pm Eldon Road Contact: Doug Stammers 01794 389192 Information: 0845 603 5631 Pastoral Care Group Somborne Singers Contact: Fi Chilton 01794 388160 Weekly meetings to sing ballads, songs from shows etc. every Tuesday at 7.45pm Parent & Toddler Group in the Parish Church. Informal friendly get-together for babies, Contact: Howard Rowe 01794 388400 pre-school children, parents and carers. Every Wednesday 10.00am - 11.30am in Somborne Sisterhood W I the Village Hall. Meets on the first Friday of each month at Contact: Sara Quayle 07989851416 8.00pm in the Village Hall Contact: Samantha Boot 01794 389554 Prayer Group Contact: Dulcie Witts 01794 388267 Table Tennis School Association Sundays 5.00pm to 6.00pm Village Hall. Contact : Frank Fahy 01794 388314 Social and fund-raising events to benefit the school and its pupils. Tiny Tots Contact: Andy Chadwick 01794 389587 Meet in the Parish Church each Tuesday at Scouts 2.00pm. Contact: Lucy Wolverson 01794 389241 Beavers Wednesdays 5.45 - 6.45pm Cubs Thursdays 6.30 - 8.00pm Village Agents Scouts Wednesdays 7.00 - 9.00pm Contacts: Sue Jackson 01794 388884 Contact: Janice Waterman 01794 389562 Lin Curtis 01794 389373 Somborne & District Society Women’s Institute Meetings held on the fourth Wednesday of Meets on the second Wednesday of each each month at 8.00pm, usually in the month at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Village Hall. Contact: Linda Aucock 01794 388542 Contact: Chris Kirby 01794 389034 Working Men’s Club Somborne Music Appreciation Group Various entertainments. Contact: Frank Fahy 01794 388314 Contacts: Janette Batchelor 07583 163607 Somborne Needleworkers Trina Masham 07852 257596 Meet each Thursday at 2.00pm at YMCA youth group Nutcher’s, 3 Nutcher’s Drove. Youth group (11-18 years) meets 2nd and Contact: Eileen Humphreys 01794 388427 4th Fridays, 6.30pm at Scout Hut. Somborne Players Contact: Pete Larkum 07779653890 Regular, informal play readings and outings. Contact: Melanie Haydon 01794 388120 3 Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal In 1916, the Rev David Railton, a Within the first chaplain at the Front, noticed a grave week, 1,250,000 in a garden in Armentieres which had a people filed past rough cross bearing the words ‘An the Unknown unknown British Soldier’. After the Warrior to pay their respects to all the war in 1920, he suggested that Britain unidentified dead. It is now one of the honour its unknown war dead most visited war graves in the world officially. and is the only part of the Abbey floor Between four and six bodies were that is never walked on.